Silicate Weathering

Earth’s Perfect Erosion Processes

December 20, 2021

It may not occur to many of us, but continental erosion from the ongoing collision between the Indian subcontinent and Asia has contributed to...

Geology & Earth

by Hugh Ross Read

Design Implications of Bedrock Water and Woody Plants

October 25, 2021

We've all seen a tree growing out of a rock (see figure) and perhaps wondered how it got water. Scientists have discovered that such...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Carbon Cycle Requirements for Advanced Life, Part 1

November 18, 2019

The movement of carbon through Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, crust, and mantle may not immediately fascinate everybody, but we will appreciate those cycles as we...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Naturalistic Evolution Challenge: Gaian Bottleneck Gets Narrower

June 17, 2019

Scientific advances continue to demonstrate our improbable planet’s fine-tuned features. In a recent issue of Science, a team of scientists led by Francis Macdonald...

Evolution

by Hugh Ross Read

Highly Fine-Tuned Reverse Weathering Stabilized Earth’s Early Climate

September 10, 2018

It bothers my wife Kathy that I can be sitting in front of a computer and not even notice that the room temperature has...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Weathered Bedrock: Key to Advanced Life on Earth

May 7, 2018

I remember as a young boy tramping around the mountains near our home in Vancouver, British Columbia, being amazed at all the trees growing...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read